The fear of an alien presence invading the body, nourishing itself from its cells and harming it before departing to become a detached (and sometimes alien) entity, is often attached to the anxiety of pregnancy. In films like Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby or Lynch’s Eraserhead, this anxiety is represented by the horror of the parent who [...]
Also tagged carrier, fear, responsibility, subconscious, womenWhat are the psychological consequences of seeing oneself as a vehicle hosting selfish genes that would eventually destroy the body? Does that make one see a pregnancy as the gene’s victory? Or the host’s free will? Can a “vehicle” even claim to have a free will or have reproductive desires been confiscated by these little [...]
Also tagged alien, carrier, fear, selfishIs it possible that the ideal of perfection is flawed from the root and contradicts human nature? We experience happiness, beauty and pleasure in a more complex way than theories of salvation and utopia often suggest. Pleasure and pain are not the opposites they might appear to be. Physical pain is often associated with sexual [...]
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